People
of God: return!
You
are called to be God’s own.
From
the mountains announce the good news.
God
comes in justice and peace,
to
all who follow his ways.
You
are God’s children.
Lord,
make us one in the peace of Christ
today
and for ever.
Amen.
People
of God: return!
2020
has truly been a heavy-going year. All three of my teenaged children are
struggling with living through a pandemic, and as a parent, I feel utterly
helpless—and not a little frustrated. And in response to 2020, many people are
looking forward to the time when things will return to normal. Except that they
won’t return to how they were; and, in any case, ‘how things were’ was hard
enough, for many. The call to return to God is not a longing to return to past
times, or places, to how things were; but, rather, a yearning to follow his
ways: to find ourselves caught-up in a community of sisters and brothers who
are seeking to follow the God who is always on the move (though rarely in a
hurry), always birthing a new thing.
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